NORTH LAS VEGAS -- Clark County commissioners took up safety concerns at North Las Vegas airport Tuesday.

The board gave the director of aviation approval to approach Congress with some legislative changes.

After two fatal plane crashes and many close calls, Randall Walker, director of aviation, said some major changes are in order.

Walker said he wants more control of the air traffic activities out of the airport.

"Allow air system such as ours to properly manage that system, so we can give access and benefits to all of the aviation community, but also balance risk to the community that lives around the airport,” Walker said.

In August, a pilot flying an experimental plane crashed into a home, killing himself and two others inside.

Walker said those types of planes should be restricted form flying over condensed neighborhoods.

But longtime pilots said they're being shut out.

"I think the ultimate goal is really to start limiting what types of airplanes can go in and out of airports. I don't think that's the right approach," said pilot Robert Jones.

“We have Jean Airport for this kind of operation. I don't believe it's true," Walker said.

Ricki Barlow, Las Vegas city councilman ward five, said he is concerned and also wants changes because he represents residents who live near the NLV airport.

"We want to go back and make sure that the policies are up to date. We want to make sure that the numbers and hours that the pilots must have are correct," Barlow said.

The next step is taking the resolution to federal legislators, but it could take years before any changes happen.

Ian Gregor, spokesman for the FAA Western-Pacific Region, released the following statement in reaction to Tuesday’s meeting: "We believe Congress acted wisely in giving the FAA sole authority over civilian airspace throughout the United States. It would cause tremendous disruption -- even chaos -- to air traffic operations nationwide if every local community were allowed to arbitrarily decide which aircraft could and could not land at local airports."